NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team led by investigators in the US, Sierra Leone, and the UK has garnered genetic evidence suggesting that the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa involves a form of the virus not linked to recent outbreaks in the region.

Instead, the strain appears to have diverged from other Ebola virus lineages originating in Middle Africa around a decade ago.

This webinar will discuss the benefits of a rapid targeted next-generation sequencing (TNGS) panel, using dried blood spots, for second-tier newborn metabolic and hearing loss screening and its immediate utility for high-risk diagnostic testing in the neonatal intensive care unit.